“THE UMBRELLA ACADEMY: SEASON ONE”
The comic-book-inspired Netflix superhero series, about seven numbered adoptees who unite for both personal and bigger reasons, comes to home video. Elliot
Page leads the cast as a violinist whose special power appropriately is linked to sound, while the others also have unique abilities that make for quite a formidable force when they’re all in sync ... strength, telekinesis, etc. While dealing with their individual matters, they try to solve the mystery behind their adoptive father’s
(Colm Feore) death while an apocalypse approaches, giving them all the concerns they can handle. Tom Hopper, David Castaneda, Emmy Raver-Lampman,
Michael Hargreaves, Robert Sheehan, Aidan Gallagher and – as a particularly focused and adept assassin – singer-actress
Mary J. Blige also star. (Not rated: AS, P, V) (Also on Blu-ray) cast upon him when his prominent, wellconnected wife (Vanessa Redgrave) dies under mysterious circumstances, and he’s particularly suspected of engineering the
tragedy by her daughter (Annette Bening). Corey Hawkins (“The Walking Dead”) also stars in the tale, based on a magazine article tellingly titled “The Worst Marriage in Georgetown.” (R: AS, P, V) (Also
››› on Digital and On Demand)
“THE UNHOLY”
Though his television fame from “The Walking Dead” and “Grey’s Anatomy” has elevated his career to another level, Jeffrey Dean Morgan was a familiar movie presence before that. In this horror tale that includes genre veteran Sam Raimi among its producers, the actor plays a troubled journalist hoping for a professional boost from profiling a deaf youngster (played by Cricket Brown) who appears able to perform literal miracles. As he goes about his research in New England, he starts to encounter phenomena that could prove much more harmful than beneficial. Adapted from the James Herbert book “Shrine,” the melodrama – which, as with so many projects, had its production interrupted by the coronavirus pandemic – also features Katie Aselton, William Sadler, Diogo Morgado and Cary Elwes.
››› (PG-13: AS, P, V) (Also on Blu-ray, Digital
and On Demand)
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